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Making XP Restore Floppy

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by dicklaw

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How do I make a Floppy for "XP restore"?
I think I have followed the directions which say in effect that a mirror of the system will be saved on the HD and then a startup disket will be formatted and written. But what actually happens is that all of the mirror wants to be written on the floppy - obviously impossible. I desperatly need this because everytime I try to download SP1 it clobbers my entire system requiring a total manual reloading of everything.

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by wilsonjude

Format a 1.44 megabyte (MB) floppy disk and insert the disk into the floppy disk drive of the computer.
In System Tools, start the Backup program. When the Backup and Restore Wizard is displayed, click Next.
Click Restore Files and Settings, and then click Next.
In the What to Restore dialog box, select the media that contains the ASR backup. Ensure that the media is inserted.
Expand the Automated System Recovery Backup Set that corresponds to the ASR floppy disk that you want to create.
Expand the second instance of the drive letter that contains the system files. Expand the Windows_folder/Repair folder.
Click the following files from this repair folder: Asr.sif and Asrpnp.sif, and then click Next.
At the Completing Backup or Restore Wizard screen, click Advanced.
At the Where to Restore screen, set the Restore Files to: dialog box to Single Folder, and then set the Folder Name dialog box to the root of your floppy drive, for example, "A:\".
Click Next. The other options in this wizard are optional and do not affect the transfer of files to the floppy disk. When the wizard is finished, the files are copied to the location that you had previously specified. The ASR floppy disk is ready for use in the event of an ASR restore operation.

NOTE: The Asr.sif and Asrpnp.sif files must reside on the root of the floppy disk drive to be used during a ASR restore operation.

by dicklaw

Thank you for your response, but I cannot seem to get started correctly. When I get to "backup the welcome tab gives me three choices, only the third fits this attempt, which is to run the ASR. At this point, no matter whar I try, I can select a previous Shadow saved or follow the wizzard to transfer the entire backup to Drive A. Neither will create the new save to drive C and the startup to Drive A floppy.
I am running WinXP Pro, Ver 5.1 (build 2600,xpclnt_qfe.021108-2107) Physical memory 507.444kb.
I have not installed SP1 because on two trys it failed to complete installation and totally clobered my mystem requiring a reload from the beginning.

by dicklaw

Please look again for something to help me make a "Restore" startup floppy. I seem to need the download and install of WinXp pro SP1, but I will not try again until I feel I can restore my system if the download fails.
I tried the suggestion by WilsonJude but cannot proceed beyond the second sentence. When I get to the "backup" page I have three choices, only the third seems to fit my needs. But still, no matter what I try the ASR tries to write the backup data to the floppy, not to the hard drive where I still have more than 10 Gb available.
Either I cannot read or the instructions do not apply to my version!

by alaistair_88

I think what you require is a XP boot floopy disk rather than a restore disk. If I am right, please go to www.microsoft.com website, surf to knowledge base to find out how to create a boot disk. The answer is long and too complicated for me to reproduce it here.
Good luck
Regards.

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